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Solar Decathlon reigning champs look for repeat: The University of Colorado at Boulder has won the last two Solar Decathlon competitions, in which 20 universities build solar-powered homes and assemble them on the National Mall in Washington. This year, the University of Colorado team chose to focus on a highly modular and flexible design that could work...; Tags: University Of Colorado, Team Management, Management, Team; Videos 2007-10-11
Photos: MIT's solar house under construction: MIT works on its entry in a competition searching for a realistic, marketable house powered entirely by the sun.On the fringe of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge, Mass., volunteer students and advisers are building a home powered entirely by the sun. This 800-square-foot building, which started to...; Tags: Team management, photograph, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Solar Decathlon, MIT Solar 7, team, University of Colorado, Boulder, tube, nod, ceremony, daylight, solar energy, fluctuation, tile, deck, Washington D.C., advisor, Paris, Washington; Image galleries 2007-08-10
An Evaluation of Fault Tolerant TCP-Splice Based Web Server Architectures: TCP splicing has been commonly used for increasing the performance of serving web content through proxies. Web server architectures built using TCP splicing suffer from two limitations: all traffic between clients and servers typically passes through the proxy, thus making the proxy scalability and performance bottlenecks; and this architecture cannot...; Tags: Web Server, Fault-tolerance, Performance, University Of Colorado, Architecture, Tcp/Ip, Web Servers, Performance Management, Servers, Networking, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware; White papers 2007-01-01
The Promise of Load Balancing the Parameterization of Moist Convection Using a Model Data Load Index: The parameterization of physical processes in atmospheric general circulation models contributes to load imbalances among individual processors of message-passing distributed-multiprocessor systems. Load imbalances increase the overall time to completion of a model run and should be eliminated or reduced as much as possible. Presented herein is a new technique that...; Tags: Technique, Load Balancing, University Of Colorado, Imbalance, Productivity, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2006-04-01
Jamming and Sensing of Encrypted Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: This paper considers the problem of an attacker disrupting an encrypted victim wireless ad hoc network through jamming. Jamming is broken down into layers and this paper focuses on jamming at the Transport/Network layer. Jamming at this layer exploits AODV and TCP protocols and is shown to be very effective...; Tags: Attacker, University Of Colorado, Tcp/Ip, Security, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless; White papers 2006-02-02

Simulation of Branching Blood Flows on Parallel Computers: This paper presents a fully parallel nonlinearly implicit algorithm for the numerical simulation of some branching blood flow problems, which require efficient and robust solver technologies in order to handle the high nonlinearity and the complex geometry. Parallel processing is necessary because of the large number of mesh points needed...; Tags: Blood, University Of Colorado, Computer, Productivity, Engineering; White papers 2005-12-26
FireWxNet: A Multi-Tiered Portable Wireless System for Monitoring Weather Conditions in Wildland Fire Environments: This paper presents FireWxNet, a multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in rugged wildland fire environments. FireWxNet provides the fire fighting community the ability to safely and easily measure and view fire and weather conditions over a wide range of locations and elevations within forest fires. This previously...; Tags: Environment, Monitoring, University Of Colorado, Weather, FireWxNet, Wi-Fi, Wireless; White papers 2005-12-01
SoftMAC - Flexible Wireless Research Platform: Software-Defined Radio SDR systems have prompted some rethinking of the network stack, and schemes have been presented that attempt to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by these flexible radio systems. However, evaluation of these schemes has largely taken place only in simulation or on small testbeds. In order to...; Tags: University Of Colorado, Wireless Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless; White papers 2005-11-04
MultiMAC - An Adaptive MAC Framework for Dynamic Radio Networking: Software-defined/cognitive radio has recently made the jump from a purely research driven endeavor to one that is now being driven commercially. Such radios offer the promise of spectrum agility and re-configurability through flexibility at the MAC and physical layers. In the wireless domain it has been shown that hybrid-MAC layer...; Tags: MAC, Network, TDMA, Radio, University Of Colorado, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; White papers 2005-09-09
University of Colorado servers hacked: University of Colorado servers hackedThe unfortunate thing ....Is that these institutions have had to historically implement a weaker security to accomodate the needs of their students, fuculty, etc.They may have hardened external security policies, but internal is usually open.; Tags: SECURITY, University of Colorado, server; Discussion threads 2005-07-23
A Sensor Based Tracking System Using Witnesses: Search and rescue of people in emergency situations, e.g. lost hikers, stranded climbers, or injured skiers has been difficult due to lack of information about their location at various times. Current location and tracking systems require a connected network via satellites, GSM base stations, or mobile devices. This requirement severely...; Tags: Sensor, University Of Colorado; White papers
HP Workstations Bring Animation to Life at the University of Colorado at Denver: The University of Colorado at Denver is a public university whose focus is on education and research, offering more than 80 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The University needed to build a digital animation program that rivals the best art school programs in the country by making education, not technology,...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., University Of Colorado, Animation, HP Workstation, Workstations; Case studies
A Practical Cross-Layer Mechanism for Fairness in 802.11 Networks: Since wireless networks are more sensitive to variations in bandwidth and environmental interference than wired networks, most networks support a number of transmission rates that have different error and bandwidth properties. Access points can communicate with multiple clients running at different rates, but this leads to unfair bandwidth allocation. If...; Tags: IEEE 802.11, Network, University Of Colorado, Fairness, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Networking; White papers
HP Helps the University of Colorado Balance Academic Freedom With Secure Information Access: Colleges and universities nationwide are working hard to consolidate and standardize their identity and access-management systems to provide enhanced security, single sign-on ease, and improved efficiency. However, the very nature of university environments - distributed disparate systems and a highly transient user population - often hamper these efforts. The University...; Tags: Solution, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Access, University Of Colorado, Authentication/Encryption, Security; Case studies
Call-Type Classification and Unsupervised Training for the Call Center Domain: This paper describes recent experiments in call-type classification and acoustic modeling for speech recognition in the call center domain. The paper first describes the CU Call Center Corpus, a database of human-to-human conversations recorded from an Information Technology IT Help Desk call center located on the University of Colorado campus...; Tags: Call-center, Domain, University Of Colorado, Training, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers

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The future of tech IPOs: At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, Frank Quattrone, co-founder of Qatalyst, talks about the dismal condition of the current IPO market, why venture capitalist backed companies are not going public right now, and what the future holds.; Tags: IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Venture Capital, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Tech IPOs; Videos 2008-07-25
10 essential gadgets for students: I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...; Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-07-25
10 essential gadgets for students: Showing you some of the gadgets college and university students really shouldn't live without. by Zack Whittaker; Tags: Student, Zack Whittaker, Gadgets, University, Pen drive, Cell phone, Laptop, Computer; Image galleries 2008-07-25
Government, markets and regulation: Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...; Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government; Discussion threads 2008-07-24
Is open source hurt by piracy?: Is open source hurt by piracy?Only hurts Open Source if proprietary is seen as "better"Sounds like what you are saying is for example, that the competition in the office suite space is Open Office Vs MS Office Vs pirated MS Office. Those willing to pirate see both Open Office...; Tags: Operating systems, open source, piracy, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software; Discussion threads 2008-07-24